I’ve been suffering from blog ennui recently, so what blogs do you recommend that I might not already be reading? I’m too lazy to remember which ones I read, so just say which ones you read that you think I might like. Feel free to pimp your own blog here.

https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpg00Doug!https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpgDoug!2012-04-03 11:48:062012-04-03 11:48:06Just because I haunt the same old places

There are also these things called books. They don’t really sell them in stores anymore, but you can get them online. They also have them for free at public libraries, if your city still has them after budget cuts.

There are also blogs about books, but I don’t want to feed your habit.

ETA: Making Light uses disemvowelment on really bad trolls. They’ve had threads in the past where it’s the commenters against the troll(s) and half the comments lose their vowels. It can be great fun to read. (Although this hasn’t happened in a while.)

@AA+ Bonds: TR is more than just comics. It’s movies, gaming, anime, nostalgia for horrible things, tv shows, and all around nerdery with the occasional smattering of Brony. It’s a fun, little website with an interesting regular community and tries not to take anything too seriously except for the Michael Bay and George Lucas hate.

Like Cassidy, I love ToplessRobot.com, which is (almost) totally SFW despite the name.

I check out bonddad’s blog regularly so I can read a bunch of stuff I completely don’t understand and then skip to the last paragraph for something that I only slightly don’t understand about the economy.

I used to read tens of blogs every day, and was a semi-regular commenter on the now-defunct Plastic. I think that nowadays we’re all talking about the same things, so the need to follow all those blogs might not be as strong as it once was. Also, a lot of the niche-interest blogs I used to follow have either gone inactive or got absorbed into other sites as folks got actual blogging careers.
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These days? Ritholz’ The Big Picture. BoingBoing. Ars Technica. Raw Story. Pandagon. I confess to checking in on Sullivan’s place at least once a day. TPM as my mainstream newsfeed. And, of course, this place.
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I sometimes write here when I need to ruminate on something in a longer form, but not very often.

@Cassidy: Of course my brain goes right to a knockoff of 4chan. But 4chan hasn’t been just a geek blog for a very long time. They ARE the meme now. Plus the geek world is more than big enough to handle more than one blog.

And I dare anyone to mock the genius of Lauren Faust. Any creator that allows “The Terminator” to be referenced in a show for girls and make it fit deserves to be recognized.

I wish James Wolcott were on the blogroll. He doesn’t post every day, and he hardly ever writes about politics, but when he does he’s hilarious. He’s almost always hilarious and interesting on any subject. And he promoted Bitsy to win the cutest dog contest!

@Yutsano: What I like about TR is the self deprecation. It feels like Robot Chicken to me. The only thing consistent and visceral is the hate-on for Michael Bay. But, the other cool thing is the community. Every week, TR runs a contest and this past one was best/worst nerd dating story. I think the intent was to have some funny, slightly humiliating accounts of freaked out guys/girls by whomever’s particular obsession. Instead it turned into this really sweet recounting of how multiple people met someone randomly and “…we’ve been married (x) years.”. It was actually pretty cool.

A friend and I have been writing about energy, environment, society, technology, and related topics for the past year or so at contraposition.org. It’s been fun, though a lot of the stuff we write about is pretty nerdy.

What now passes under the name of libertarianism is a philosophy of privilege that could only look reasonable to people who are deliberately not paying attention to the benefits they get from the system they claim to despise.

Hah! I had also planned to recommend Starts With A Bang, an astronomy blog with amazing illustrations and great extended friendly explanations of neat stuff.

So i’ll send that, and add One Man And His Blog, a British business journalist’s ongoing coverage of the ways reporting, news corporations, and media opportunities online all interact. It’s like an informal trade journal of a still-emerging field.

@Zach: Does anyone besides me remember when Ken Levine did color commentary for the Braves? It was right around 1990 (before they got good) and he was hysterical. It was like Bob Uecker in Major League, except for real.

On my blog, CentralCoastFoodie.com, we promote exceptional, sustainable food and drink from Santa Cruz to Ventura. We’re working on a piece about the Farm Bill and recently published a piece on food justice, as well as lots of posts about wine, whole food preparation, bicycling, eating your garden, and generally supporting your community through informed food/drink purchases.

I have tried to put together all of Ayn Rand’s anti-Christian material in one place in hopes of putting conservative Christians on the spot. “You can’t support both Jesus and Ayn Rand. You must choose.” Forward the link to all your Supply-Side Jesus worshiping friends. aynrandhatedjesus.blogspot.com

Plug for my Atlanta friend’s blog about feral cats. It’s not updated super often, but it has a lot of pictures, videos and useful information. She and her partner have a clutch of indoor cats, and they have taken over “management” of a colony of feral cats in the woods behind their house. Successfully trapped and neutered all of them.